My first few years, brady was just trying to get on the field however I could. After we won the national championship in '97 with Brian (Griese) as the quarterback, I competed pretty hard with Brian that year to be the starter and he beat me out in training camp. We went on to be 12-0. Going into that next season, that was when Drew (Henson) came in and Drew was an incredible player and an incredible athlete. He was from Brighton (Mich.) and he was recruited heavily by coach (Lloyd) Carr. When I went there, I was recruited by coach (Gary) Moeller and the guy who recruited me, Bill Harris, left the year that I got there to go to Stanford.
"And the following year, the quarterback coach who recruited me, Jim Cartwright, left. And so, really, my second year, there was really nobody who had really known me or sat in my living room and said, 'Tom, we really want you at Michigan.' next







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